The Birth of The Prince and The Raven

Part 6

[If you take this deal, your friends will live but you will never see them again.]

This bullshit.

[If you don't, your friends will die and you will live on without them.]

What an absolutely garbage god.

Kim Rok Soo would one day be the sort of person who could spit in the eyes of sucha tyrannical offering from a pitiless god.

But Kim Rok Soo, at the age of twenty-five and desperately striving to save his closest friends while the unranked monster threatened to level all of the growth society had made in the last five years if they weren't able to stop him... he simply didn't have the means or experience to do anything on his own.

No matter what Kim Rok Soo chose, he would never see them again.

But they would live. And apparently they'd be able to stop the monster.

All he had to do was accept this one-sided deal.

His fists shook in frustration but Kim Rok Soo there just wasn't enough time to hesitate.

"Fine."

–

One of the many things that had bothered Kim Rok Soo ever since his arrival inside of [The Birth of a Hero] were his memories of the novel.

He remembered reading it, as clearly as though he'd recorded the entire thing. He could remember turning from one side on his futon to another as his elbow got tired of supporting him while he read about Choi Han riding atop of whales. He remembered falling asleep as he lazily gave up on finishing the series.

And yet Kim Rok Soo was confident that he had never read the series. Or at least, he couldn't pinpoint the period of time that the memory was supposed to take place in. The first five years of the apocalypse just weren't a relaxing enough period of time to leisurely spend time reading fantasy novels. Especially when he'd been working overtime for the company basically every day of the week.

It was possible that the event occurred during his comparably blurry high school days, but how did he remember only these novels so clearly?

He'd chalked it up to something to think about later and hopefully something he wouldn't need to bother with at all.

It was still annoying though.

Living at the very bottom of society within an affluent society was such a familiar experience that Kim Rok Soo hardly felt it was necessary for him to acknowledge the fantasy of the world. Aside from trying to avoid the chaos of the upcoming wars that would consume the continent, was there anything fanciful for Kim Rok Soo in this place?

The novel mentioned a hungry ancient power that would be super helpful to him and was near to his exact location. Of fucking course the power required an excess of food as if taunting Kim Rok Soo's current near starvation.

There wasn't a world where he'd feed a fucking tree instead of two starving kids. Sure, if he had the ability he'd definitely feed both. But he wasn't the sort of garbage that would only throw food down a literal pit.

There were many things that bothered Kim Rok Soo the longer he was here, so much so that he was considering doing something about them even if he didn't have the means or power to do anything.

Cale Henituse was an existence he really should have taken advantage of earlier. Kim Rok Soo initially didn't want anything to do with anyone who was involved in the main story, especially not the moron who actually antagonized Choi Han.